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(1) I may be the only one who finds Laurie hysterical in small doses.
(2) for the sake of the company, isn't this the right move? Richard has not really been an effective leader, he needs someone to come in and build a company, not a tech platform
(3) for the sake of the show, i find Richard running the company funnier than someone they appoint.
(4) what made Peanuts / Charlie Brown funny was that they did not rely solely on the Lucy moving the football gag. Tone of other storylines. It seems Silicon Valley is just constantly yanking the company in and out of Richard's hands.
(5 ) the deletion sequence / dead cell phone was really contrived.
Still, this show is really funny.
I actually think, for sake of moving past the Charlie Brown/Lucy plot lines, removing Richard as CEO is a good thing.
Richard is clearly not suited to be a manager. If he remains the head of a growing corporation, the plot inevitably has to fall back on his struggles of running things and his inability to do that well. Thus, Richard is either constantly in the Charlie Brown/Lucy position or the Michael Scott "be terrible but somehow maintain your job" role. It's Silicon Valley, not Dunder-Mifflin, so the latter isn't believable and the former would get tired.
BUT: remove Richard as CEO and suddenly you have loads of fresh material. Richard is chafing in a subordinate role and having to take orders even though he is the visionary who made it all possible. Dinesh and Gilfoyle are constantly reminding him that he's been demoted, while trying to prove to the new CEO that each other are the worst at their jobs. Erlich is jockeying to curry favor with the CEO, even though he technically doesn't even work at Pied Piper. Jared is driving the CEO batty with his Jared-ness.
Lots of potential there.
